Derek Astles
ARTIST BIO
Born in New Hampshire in 1982, Derek Astles has been performing throughout the USA and Canada since the year 2001.
Past venues include: House of Blues (Boston, MA), Taos Inn, Taos Ski Valley, Alley Cantina (Taos, NM), Santa Fe Brewing Company, Commadore Sports Bar (Nashville, TN), Jim Hightower's Rolling Thunder Democracy Tour W/Michael Moore, Blue Plate Special Radio Show (Knoxville, TN), The Mellow Mushroom (Asheville, NC), The Winnapisakee Playhouse (Laconia, NH), Castaways Resort (Las Vegas, NV) Live@Lunch (Fort Collins, CO), The South Park Saloon (Alma, CO), Barley House (Concord, NH), Daniels (Henniker, NH), The Press Room (Portsmouth, NH). Additionally Astles performed with Josh Kerin (Freeks, Grayson Capps Bass) at Lizard Lounge in New Orleans, LA and with John Holden (Chip Smith Project) at numerous venues across New Hampshire...including FletchFest in Warner, NH.
.......From MountainX Newspaper(Asheville, NC) February 28, 2008
We start this week’s Listening Party with the work of Derek “FolknRolln” Astles, a self-described “hardcore” and “folk rock” performer based in Asheville. There’s scant information on his MySpace page, but a quick web search reveals that Astles has quite a history as a cafe-circuit touring perfomer. His songs fall into a somewhat classic folk-oriented vein, but there’s quite a sense of insightful, pop-music savvy craft to his tunes. We suggest starting with the song “The half of you.”
Derek Astles has won numerous awards including
First place NACMAI country music contest (Las Vegas, NV)
First place NHCMA contest
Second place True Value country showdown
Second place Granite State songwriting competition
Check out the FolknRolln album Seedn'it by Derek Astles on Spotify!
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